Sometimes I think there should be cases with double insulation, which would act like big heatsink on its exterior side and prevent the dissipated heat to return inside the case and cause reheating components. With some bracket which alongside having a regular fan, would connect the CPU to the case walls via heatpipes to the case walls so more heat could be dissipated from the CPU and GPU, however I'm not sure if the case would be safe to touch due to high amounts of heat being transfered on its outer construction.
That is a neat idea :thumbsup: and others have had such an idea as well (no surprise, the wheel got invented many times over too) but it never caught on for some reason
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article75-page2.html
Doesn't the 8150 already draw that much, or more, when heavily overclocked? Seems like the better boards are already capable of it, just need to slap a sticker on them and make it official.
I agree with you that the boards already exist which can support upwards of 300W power-consumption if needed (well in excess of a 220W TDP processor).
But they aren't warranted or guaranteed to support it for long-term sustained usage. You know the mobo guys are going to add a premium to their mobos if they have to put themselves on the hook for warranties for dead mobos.
You have to give them credit, they are trying.
I wonder how well these models will OC, or whether they are already at their limit. Imagine if these things can reliably get into the low 5ghz range...
Assuming they can maintain the clockspeeds they are with Piledriver for Steamroller, they might actually catch up in performance after all... (though likely not perf/watt, at least on the high end).
I can't imagine these things having any OC'ing headroom left on the table, but AMD says otherwise in their official news release:
AMD said:
The new 5 GHz FX-9590 and 4.7 GHz FX-9370 feature the "Piledriver" architecture, are unlocked for easy overclocking and pave the way for enthusiasts to enjoy higher CPU speeds and related performance gains1.
This is true. What they're doing is completely nuts (in a bad way) and I can't believe we're going this route, but at least they're not sitting around accepting their fate.
In any case, since it's OEM-only I'd expect we'll see boutique builders pick this one up. The Falcon NWs and Origins of the world who can hook it up to massive air coolers and water cooling loops.
220W CPUs... I like powerful CPUs, but this is getting absurd.
I for one don't like the idea of a 220W (or more) processor...but I'd love for AMD to get the performance crown on a small-volume Halo part like this if only to light a fricken fire under Intel's ass and get them a little more motivated to find a way to get Haswell (or Broadwell) to something >4GHz stock without hitting 200W in the process.
Right now Intel is getting pathetically lethargic resting on its laurels. If it takes a 220W super-volted piledriver SKU to knock some sense into them then I'll take it. And if it doesn't, then I'll be looking forward to 28nm steamroller all the more.